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Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Latin American Economies: An Empirical Approach

Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco; Yavuz, Hasan … - 2020

Identifying the determinants of intergenerational mobility is an important aim in the development literature. In this article, intergenerational transmission is examined for 6 neglected Latin American Economies (Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Puerto Rico). We use a multinomial...

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Flexible Work Arrangements and Precautionary Behavior: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Orland, Andreas; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2020

In the past years, work time in many industries has become increasingly flexible opening up a new channel for intertemporal substitution. To study this, we set up a two-period model with wage uncertainty. This extends the standard savings model by allowing a worker to allocate a fixed time...

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The Impact of Learning about AI Advancements on Trust

Nikolova, Milena; Angrisani, Marco - 2025

Can people develop trust in Artificial Intelligence (AI) by learning about its developments? We conducted a survey experiment in a nationally representative panel survey in the United States (N = 1,491) to study whether exposure to news about AI influences trust differently than learning about...

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What do student jobs on graduate CVs signal to employers?

Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Cuypers, Laure; De Couck, … - 2019

Due to the prevalence and important consequences of student work, the topic has seen an increased interest in the literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the...

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Why Is Unemployment Duration a Sorting Criterion in Hiring?

Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; De Couck, Marijke; Di … - 2017

Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates’ unemployment duration as a sorting criterion. In the present study, we investigate the mechanisms underlying this pattern. To this end, we conduct a lab experiment in which participants make hiring...

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Adverse selection, learning, and competitive search

Mayr-Dorn, Karin - 2020

I develop a dynamic version of the competitive search model with adverse selection in Guerrieri, Shimer and Wright (2010). My model allows for an analysis of the effects of firm learning on labor market efficiency in the presence of search frictions. I find that firm learning increases relative...

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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Economic preferences – like time, risk and social preferences – have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences...

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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020

Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh...

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Strategic Behaviours in a Labour Market with Mobility-Restricting Contractual Provisions: Evidence from the National Hockey League

Fumarco, Luca; Longley, Neil; Palermo, Alberto; Rossi, … - 2024

We follow workers' performance along an unbalanced panel dataset over multiple years and study how performance varies at the end of fixed-term contracts, in a labour market where some people face a mobility restricting clause (i.e., a noncompete clause). Focusing on the labour market of the...

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Residential responses to cyclones: New evidence from Australia

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis - 2024

and proximity. Additionally, these cyclones prompt individuals to acknowledge the significance of home-related insurance … and actively seek coverage. Alongside long-distance domestic migration, insurance acquisition emerges as another … among these coping strategies depends on factors such as cyclone severity, age, prior homeownership, income, insurance …

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